Here's a short review of S.C.E. #15: Past Life by Robert Greenberger. Currently in the middle of Seekers #4. Not bad so far!
So I have read and reviewed The Folded World by Jeff Mariotte which you find here. I have to admit, the book looks great but the story ended up being pretty average to be honest.
I just finished reading The autobiography of James T. Kirk by David A.Goodman I really liked this book a lot . I'm now readimg a collection of Science fiction short stories from the 1940s some of the stories have been really good.
Finally picked up the the Deep Space Nine Companion. I've only read through a handful of episodes, the tribble episode and some others with Garak and I'm already in love with this book. I also looked up a couple episodes that aren't good and the producers didn't sugar coat it, they didn't like them either. Made me like the book even more. Are the other companion books the same quality? I've heard the Voyager creators didn't give the same access the DS9 crew gave.
The DS9 book is the best and most in-depth of them. The TNG one has a certain amount of behind-the-scenes discussion, but nowhere near as in-depth as the DS9C has. And the VGR one has essentially none at all.
Perhaps the best comparison to the DS9C is The Making of Star Trek by Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry. Whitfield (a pseudonym for Stephen Edward Poe) was given the same kind of behind-the-scenes access that Block and Erdmann had on DS9, and TMOST is a marvelously in-depth book on the creative and production process of the original series, though it doesn't use the episode-guide format of the Companions (for that, the best work would be The Star Trek Compendium by Allan Asherman -- ideally the first edition, since the revised editions oddly cut out some of the information that was in the original). Poe also did A Vision of the Future: Star Trek: Voyager, a TMOST-like book about the production of VGR, though it only covers the first couple of seasons.
I finished Star Trek: Voyager: Atonement by Kirsten Beyer. I then read Tomb Raider: Season of the Witch, a comic that picks up after the 2013 game. Spoiler: A few problems I had I thought it was a little unnecessary to have the characters go back to Yamatai so soon, if ever. I also thought the people wearing suits who worshipped the Solarii made no sense. Why would a group of seemingly wealthy people living in modern society worship a group of murderous crazed castaway scavengers? Also the title doesn't have anything to do with the story; there was no witch that I noticed. The art, however, was excellent throughout. I'm currently reading Leviathan Wakes, the first book in The Expanse, by James S.A. Corey.
Just posted my review of Seekers #4: All That's Left by Ward/Dilmore. Rather enjoyed it! Currently reading The Q Continuum, Book 2: Q-Zone by Greg Cox. My favorite of The Fall series, and the best Trek book of 2013 (in my opinion).
The Fall 1 wasn't bad either. I just want to read all of the The Fall novels until I can say which one was the best...
While in hospital I rad Brian Blessed's Absolute Pandemonium, which is was good fun and frequently fascinating, and Clive Cssler and Grant Blackwood's The Kingdom, which was also good escapist fun (and continues with the theme that Cussler's cowriters know better than to switch viewpoints within a scene the way he himself does when writing on his own).
I have read Crisis of Consciousness by Dave Galanter and it was one of the best TOS novels I have read so far. My review can be found on my blog here.
Last week I started Leviathan Wakes, the first book in The Expanse series, in preparation for Syfy's TV adaptation starting next month.
I read that a couple months back and I loved it. One of my favorites of the year. I've started the second book in the series, Caliban's War, and I'm liking that a lot as well. I'm really looking forward to the series.
I'm rereading Star trek Tng 20th anniversary collection of short stories again. I really like them and seeing Data appear in some of the stories is great to see appear in stories that take place during the tv series . I hope some day we'll see another book with Data having his own adventures again someday.